Because we are losing the class war
barryamelton
It's always this exact article "on the topic" that gets posted in response. I remember his posts on social networks though.
Just compile everything to webassembly and ship that,using your preferred language and libraries.
Which means that we will get blobs to interact with, instead of JavaScript code that can be "reviewed" or monkey patched away.
Fun times. Thanks, monopolistic assholes like Goggle, Microsoft and Apple.
They sell emergency car lights that you pop up on top of the car ala secret police (but yellow). They have a modem that when activated automatically notifies the road services of you being there stopped.
*in principle, not in principal.
Are you Russian?
We are losing the class war.
Tech is a tool. It can be benefitting the oligarchs and restrictive, or benefitting society and open source.
They have been moving things to apps so they can substitute piecemeal the open source OS with their close sources: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/
That article is 12 years old. It has only gotten worse.
How do you opt out for already created content in the past?
That stealing copyrighted works would be as illegal for these companies as it is for normal people. Sick and tired of seeing them get away with it.